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Obama Reveals The Strange-But-Happy Recurring Dream He Had While President

"I felt like I won the lottery," the former president recalled in an interview with Hasan Minhaj.
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Former President Barack Obama said he had a strange recurring dream while in the White House. 

“I did have dreams where I wasn’t president ― and they were some of my happiest dreams,” he told Hasan Minhaj in a video on YouTube.

He described dreams where he could just walk into a bodega and get an iced coffee. 

“I’d sit on a bench and suddenly I realized that nobody recognizes me,” he recalled. “And that’s the only thing that happened in the dream: I’d just be sitting there, chill. And I felt like I won the lottery.”

Check out the full half-hour interview below: 

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